transcendental petroglyphs

will leshner's cave wall scratchings

@ Saturday, April 27, 2002

Even more weird stuff

The previous post had a tag in the title and body. I was testing to see if putting angle brackets into a title worked correctly. First, it didn't work as I wasn't correclty turning it into an HTML entity. But it wouldn't work anyway as it would be treated as markup and not as content. So my "tag" ended up getting removed from the post. Actually, the tag is there in the data, but a browser, thinking it is a tag (that it doesn't recognize) strips it.
This post has tags in the title but this time they are tags a browser understands. Can you guess what the tags are?

comment ()  9:44:16 PM  #

Testing "other" stuff

Testing "other" stuff

comment ()  9:36:52 PM  #

That last post ...

came from my desktop web page and it shows the 8-bit character problem in reverse. There, the body is fine but the title is messed up. That's got to be because Radio is converting the body to Latin-1 but not the title. The posts themselves live on the Mac, so they are probably MacLatin there. But when they go up to the cloud, they need to be converted to Latin-1 or they won't display correctly on the web. So the body is being converted and the title isn't. The problem, of course, is that I need to leave Radio the way it is for now. It works. But when UserLand fixes this bug I'll need to ship another version immediately to keep in sync. That's ok, though. I don't really consider this to be the same kind of problem as the MetaWeblog API bug, which, was a showstopper, in my opinion.

comment ()  9:22:49 PM  #

8-Bit characters from my desktop web page: È[dot accent]Ì[cedilla][^]

8-Bit characters from my desktop web page: éúíüö

comment ()  9:16:59 PM  #

That Doesn't Work !

Well, as you can all see, that doesn't work. Very strange. It's almost as if Radio handles the body of the post as Latin-1 but the title as MacLatin. Actually, I'll be that's exactly what's going on. Why that just may be a Radio bug. I'm heading off to the discussion group to see if there's anything about it there. Wish me luck :)

comment ()  9:02:59 PM  #

More 8-Bit Characters: ÈÓ[cedilla][^]Â

Now I'm converting the title to Latin-1 from MacLatin. Let's see if that makes any difference. My feeling is that I should be doing the conversion. The fact that I don't need to feels like a bug.

comment ()  8:59:48 PM  #

I don't know why ...

but 8-bit characters show up fine in the title's of my posts even though I'm not converting them to Latin-1. That's very strange. I could just be happy. But I'll feel better if I look into it a bit and convince myself everything is working correctly. For example, what happens if I do convert them to Latin-1? That's my next test.

comment ()  8:50:59 PM  #

8-Bit Characters: éíúüïöå©

8-Bit Characters: éíúüïöå©

comment ()  8:48:45 PM  #

Radio Poster Fixed

I figured out my problem. As you can imagine, I was sending Mac characters instead of ISO-8859-1 (or Latin-1 or, let's face it, Windows) characters as post data. Or well :)
I think there may still be a problem with the title/link, though maybe not.

comment ()  3:58:32 PM  #

Mozilla

I've been playing with Mozilla for the Mac and it is quite snappy. It has a few interesting quirks, but very useable. And I think it's quite a bit faster than IE 5. I hate to admit it but I really like IE 5. But it is a bit slow. And it isn't a good OS X citizen, either!

comment ()  11:44:54 AM  #

VFS

VFS, or Virtual File System, is something that will be in REALbasic 4.5. It's a whole file system in one file. So you can use FolderItems and such just as you would with a regular file system. But it's all in one file. So it's like a database. And it should be fast like a database. I think I've come up with my first VFS app: Buggy. A bug database. I need that to track bugs for my apps anyway. So I might as well make it a releasable app and let other people use it.

comment ()  11:42:21 AM  #

Radio Poster Bug

A Radio Poster user has pointed out a bug. Radio Poster doesn't handle 8-bit characters correctly. They end up wrong on the web. I'm looking into it right now. It might be a bug in Radio but even if it is I should be able to work around it. Nothing as serious as the recent MetaWeblog API bug, which UserLand fixed, thank you very much.

comment ()  11:40:27 AM  #